Harlequin Desire October 2014 - Box Set 2 of 2: The Child They Didn't Expect\Tempted by a Cowboy\For Her Son's Sake by Yvonne Lindsay

Author:Yvonne Lindsay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Eight

Jo sat at the dinette table in her trailer that night, not seeing her email. She was supposed to be replying to horse owners who were looking for a miracle, but that’s not what she was doing.

Phillip Beaumont had kissed her hand. And nothing more.

If that were her only problem, it would have been enough. But it wasn’t. She wasn’t sure how much Richard had seen.

For the first time in a very long time, Jo was...unsure of herself. One man who, by all accounts, was a spoiled party boy with more money than sense and she had apparently lost her damned mind.

She did not fool around with clients. Under any circumstances. Beyond being a temptation back into her old ways, it was bad for business. If word got around that she was open to affairs, people might stop hiring her.

What a mess. If flirting with Phillip Beaumont was causing such a problem for her, why on God’s green Earth was she letting it go on?

Because she’d seen the look on his face when she’d hinted that if he cleaned another saddle tomorrow morning, he’d get another reward.

She should have jerked her hand out of his when he kissed it. Hell, she shouldn’t have touched him at all. She should have followed her own rules—rules she had in place for a variety of exceptionally good reasons—and steered well clear of Phillip Beaumont and his reputation.

If she didn’t feel such a duty to Sun, she’d pack up and drive off to another, less tempting job tomorrow. Yes, it’d be a blow to her reputation to lose Beaumont Farms as a reference, but three other trainers had already failed. Bailing on this job wouldn’t end her aspirations, not like having an affair with Phillip could.

But she wouldn’t abandon the horse, not when they were making such progress. Richard had told her that if she couldn’t save the horse, he’d have to be put down. True, Sun might have calmed to the point where another trainer could come in and finish the job, but she didn’t know if she wanted to hope for the best and never look back. That’s what the old her would have done. That’s not what the woman she was now did.

Her only consolation was that she had rediscovered her restraint this afternoon when Phillip had driven past the paddock with a wagon full of hay to ask if she wanted to see his Thoroughbreds. Then he’d held the reins out to her.

She’d passed on his offer, saying she needed to keep an eye on Sun.

This would be so much easier if Phillip were a jerk. Some of the men—and women—who’d hired her were, in fact, total jerks. That’s why she had that upfront policy of not hooking up or dating. That’s why she kept her trailer door locked.

But Phillip wasn’t a jerk. At least, not once he’d sobered up.

He cleaned tack because she asked him to. He tried to be still because it was important to Sun, even if he didn’t totally succeed.

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